HB24 - Alabama Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act

• Prohibits the state from discriminating against or taking adverse action against child placing agencies based on their decline to make placements that conflict with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Prevents the state from refusing to issue, renew, or revoking licenses of child placing agencies due to religious objections to placements, provided the agency otherwise complies with Minimum Standards for Child Placing Agencies.

• Defines "child placing agency" as private child-care facilities receiving no federal funds that place children in adoptive or foster family homes under the Alabama Child Care Act of 1971.

• Specifies that one agency's refusal to place a child cannot limit another child placing agency's ability to make the same placement.

• Provides injured agencies with remedies under the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act and rights under the First Amendment and Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment (Amendment 622).